UID
represents an identifier that is unique over time with respect to the host it is generated on, or one of 216 "well-known" identifiers. The {@link #UID()} constructor can be used to generate anidentifier that is unique over time with respect to the host it is generated on. The {@link #UID(short)} constructor can be used tocreate one of 216 well-known identifiers.
A UID
instance contains three primitive values:
unique
, an int
that uniquely identifies the VM that this UID
was generated in, with respect to its host and at the time represented by the time
value (an example implementation of the unique
value would be a process identifier), or zero for a well-known UID
time
, a long
equal to a time (as returned by {@link System#currentTimeMillis()}) at which the VM that this UID
was generated in was alive, or zero for a well-known UID
count
, a short
to distinguish UID
s generated in the same VM with the same time
value An independently generated UID
instance is unique over time with respect to the host it is generated on as long as the host requires more than one millisecond to reboot and its system clock is never set backward. A globally unique identifier can be constructed by pairing a UID
instance with a unique host identifier, such as an IP address.
@author Ann Wollrath
@author Peter Jones
@version 1.24, 06/02/23
@since JDK1.1
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